The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-31
AT NEW YORK.

An Almost Universal Suspension of Bush
ness and General Observance of the Day.
NEW York, May 30.-Everyday toll was
quite generally suspended in the shops and bust
ness houses of this city oday, and men, women
and children IN holiday attire. The prin-
cpal event was the parade OF the Grand Army
men, escorted by the militia. The streets and
avenues adj acent to and along the line of march
thronged with spectators. The procession
started from Forty second street and Fifth
avenue shortly after 1 o'clock. The Seventh,
Sixty ninth, Eighth, Eleventh, Fourth, Twelfth,
Twenty-second and Seventy-frst regiments,
and the First and Second batteries acted
escort to the Grand Army of the Republic.
Following them came the body of the process
sion, composed of sixty Grand Army posts.
divided into ten divisions and numbering
over six thousand men. Then came a
large number of veteran associations in which
were included the Fire and Hawkins zouaves, the
veterans of the Tammany and Mozart regi-
ments Meaghers Irish Brigade, and veterans of
the Sixty ninth. observation-disclosures third and
Onehundred aud-ten regiments; the Gardes
Lafayette and the Grenaders Rochambeau.
The procession closed with two floral divisions,
composed of trucks ard wagons draped in flags
and loaded with n wealth of flowers to be laid by
the several Grand Army posts on the comra des
graves. Carriages containing Governor Hill,
Generals Sherman aud Sheridan, Mayor Hewitt,
and other officials, and ACCOMPANIED by the Gov
errors staff. escorted down Fifth avenue
to the reviewing stand at Madison square,
where they took their places and stood
while the procession passed by. In the square
stands monument to General Worth, who was
killed in the Mexican war. and statues of Farra-
gut and Seward, each OF which was handsomely
decorated. The large square was thronged with
people. The monuments to Washington Lin
coin and Lafayette, standing in Union square,
were decorated with lavish profusion of flow
and, like Madison square, every inch of
space thronged with spectators. Having
passed the Washington monument, the National
Guard regiments marched to their armories, and
the various G. A. r. posts went by train or ferry
to Greenwood, Calvary, Cypress Hill, Evergreen
and other cemeteries; to Trinity and Woodlawn
cemeteries and to cemeteries at Staten island,
White Plains, Newark, and other places in the
vicinity. where they decorated the graves of their
comrades and held memorial services
Early this morning Mrs. Grant drove to
Riverside Park. and, entering the tomb of Gen.
Grant, laid her personal token of flowers upon
the steel casket which contains the remains of
her dead husband. The front of the tomb was
mass of flowers From the cross above the
arch pended Grand Army badge of purple and
blue immorteles. which had been sent by Chi
cago admirers of the late General. In the center
of the iron door were roses sent by Thomas
Post, of Deer Lodge, NJ. t., while scattered
around were floral offerings from the Viceroy of
China. President Barrioss widow, and lnnumer-
able Grand Army posts. About p. NJ.
the first party of fifty colored boys who
each placed flower upon the tomb The exer
clses began at $40, with the rendition of the
funeral wall and triumph OF Chopin, after which
the ritual of the Grand Army observed.
John Riley Thompson, ID. D.. native of Ohio,
pastor of the Washington square NJ. T.. Church,
then delivered eloquent and patriotic address,
taking the ground that war is necessary part
of Gods providence in the development of the
world The Grafton was followed by the March
Fupebre." from Beethoven's Twelfth Sonata,
performed by the band. and the national hymn,
sung by the Apollo Club. The bugle call, Flights
out" then rang out, and the services ended with
beneCiction.